Born into a poor peasant family of six children at the end of the 19th century in Italy, Maria Goretti's life was difficult from the beginning. Her family worked as farm hands and the children had ...

Cycling, in its most familiar form, dates back to at least the 19th century. One example of an early bicycle was known as the “hobby horse” , and i ...

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An advertisement in the late 19th century showed Pope Leo XIII on his throne, wearing the triple tiara on his head and ...

Mary Somerville’s writings, across a range of disciplines – maths, astronomy, botany, geography – became essential reading ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland ... This system of punishment even stretched to children. Brandes recalls the case of a 12-year-old boy incarcerated for ...

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President Joe Biden expressed concern about the purported existence of an oligarchy in the United States that he claimed is ...

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Will England’s prep schools survive Rachel Reeves’s tenure as Chancellor? While fee-paying education for primary aged ...